Participant:
Dan Weaver, Ph.D., CEO at Boulder BioConsulting
Information:
Modern drug discovery is a dynamic, collaborative process in which companies engage both internal and external resources to orchestrate their development programs. This paradigm allows companies to leverage partners for much of the scientific work, increasing scientists’ efficiency and reducing costs for lab space.
On the IT side, outsourcing has traditionally been limited to basic support roles with scientific tasks remaining in-house. As software and data management tasks continue to evolve, maintaining the mix of development, administration, and analytical roles is proving challenging. The pool of available informatics resources is limited and, just like lab services, not all skills are needed all the time.
In this talk, we explore a new model for informatics in which the entire informatics role is handled as a service. “Informatics as a Service” provides companies with access to a range of skills at a fraction of the cost of in-sourcing, allowing companies to focus on their core mission while leveraging expert resources to handle their informatics and analysis needs.